Coronavirus (2021) thread

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tolmie's hairdoo said:
I am now completely Covid clear :)

My latest scans have come back and no stickiness anymore.

Almost three months, but time to start breathing easier again - literally!!
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How is your taste and smell? Mine only just near normal now from having COVID in October. A burnt sulphury type of taste for months!
 
GM Weekly Pop Scores after today:~

Borough / Score Today / Score 7 days ago / up or down wk to wk/ Testing is % of local population who have tested positive for Covid over past year.

As ever with Pop scores going up is bad, going down good - the higher the number the better or worse depending on direction moving. The Pop Score is total cases in past week versus 100,000 POPulation to even out the comparison versus size and expected cases based on numbers living there.


Rochdale 126 / 114 / UP 12 Testing positive 9.2%

Tameside 116 / 107 / UP 9 Testing positive 7.7%

Salford 114 / 101 UP 13 Testing positive 8.6%

Oldham 101 / 86 / UP 15 Testing positive 9.3%

Wigan 95 / 102 / down 7 Testing positive 8.5%

Bolton 95 / 112 / down 17 Testing positive 8.6%

Manchester 94 / 82 / UP 12 Testing positive 9.2%

Stockport 93 / 88 / UP 5 Testing positive 6.9%

Bury 72/ 92/ down 20 Testing positive 8.7%

Trafford 63 / 62 / UP 1 Testing positive 6.7%


Been a good week for Bury and Bolton - down a good bit. Wigan going in the right direction now too. Trafford has plateaued but at a low point so no problem. Stockport is up and down and could go either way from here. Manchester much the same after record falls it has flatlined somewhat.

Rochdale, Tameside Salford and Oldham are over 100 and still going up

Nobody really in trouble but only Trafford is ahead of the NW average though Bury is close to there. Everyone else underperforming a little versus the NW region numbers. But not in any way that is surprising given it is the biggest conurbation and focus of population in the region so the place you would expect the virus to be most at home.
 
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tolmie's hairdoo said:
I am now completely Covid clear :)

My latest scans have come back and no stickiness anymore.

Almost three months, but time to start breathing easier again - literally!!
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Great news Tolm.
When you say 'stickiness' how does that present itself? I still have something sat in my lungs and occasional massive lethargy (can't make two flights of stairs without stopping) and a cough like there's something I can't shake loose (which is where the blood clot worries omits from).

I'm just over two months so perhaps mine will soon release it's rancid grip...
Interesting you've had scans. Still might phone the docs this week.

Pleased you're on the mend mate.
 
If anything shows how quickly this spreads look at the Isle of Man. No cases for months and now they have 800 cases.
 
give it to gordon said:
Wow that's scary ..
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It's one in a hundred of the population, same sort of levels we've seen recently. Thankfully, recent days have seen falls in number of new cases, suggesting some regaining of control.

They've some bright people on Man; they'll be fine. (Though whether my mate in Douglas will be allowed over to Manchester to visit the Holt pubs any time soon is a different matter !).
 
Astrazeneca need to provide a better explanation for these blood clots issues because it is already putting considerable doubts in people's minds. Correlation doesn't equal causation as they say but just a blanket statement "it isn't us" isn't re-assuring people.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
Astrazeneca need to provide a better explanation for these blood clots issues because it is already putting considerable doubts in people's minds. Correlation doesn't equal causation as they say but just a blanket statement "it isn't us" isn't re-assuring people.
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From the BBC website:​

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What did AstraZeneca say?​

It said there was no evidence of an increased risk of clotting due to the vaccine.
It said that across the EU and United Kingdom there had been 15 events of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) - a blood clot in a vein - and 22 events of pulmonary embolism - a blood clot that has entered the lungs - reported among those vaccinated.

AstraZeneca said these figures were "much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size and is similar across other licensed Covid-19 vaccines".
"The nature of the pandemic has led to increased attention in individual cases and we are going beyond the standard practices for safety monitoring of licensed medicines in reporting vaccine events, to ensure public safety," Ann Taylor, the firm's chief medical officer, said.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
Astrazeneca need to provide a better explanation for these blood clots issues because it is already putting considerable doubts in people's minds. Correlation doesn't equal causation as they say but just a blanket statement "it isn't us" isn't re-assuring people.
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What else can they possibly say other than what their database shows?
 
"AstraZeneca said these figures were "much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size and is similar across other licensed Covid-19 vaccines"."

Should therefore be marketed as helping lower case of blood clots as well as hammering the virus in that case (obvs not really suggesting this).
 
roubaixtuesday said:


What else can they possibly say other than what their database shows?
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Classic case of Chinese whispers, helps no one. Surprised there has been no cross reference as yet to point out people having blood clots who had the Pfizer jab as that would soon nip this in the bud.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:

From the BBC website:​

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What did AstraZeneca say?​

It said there was no evidence of an increased risk of clotting due to the vaccine.
It said that across the EU and United Kingdom there had been 15 events of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) - a blood clot in a vein - and 22 events of pulmonary embolism - a blood clot that has entered the lungs - reported among those vaccinated.

AstraZeneca said these figures were "much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size and is similar across other licensed Covid-19 vaccines".
"The nature of the pandemic has led to increased attention in individual cases and we are going beyond the standard practices for safety monitoring of licensed medicines in reporting vaccine events, to ensure public safety," Ann Taylor, the firm's chief medical officer, said.
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Someone has to explain the correlation of timings and the fact that instances and other long-term effects of the vaccine are being under-reported. There are people I know who had the vaccine a couple of weeks ago and are still suffering temperature fluctuations, inability to sleep and are just being fobbed off with "it's normal", when it isn't. Equally, the majority are absolutely fine but that doesn't mean we shouldn't give properly detailed reasoning to quell any worries, because when it comes to something as important as the vaccine these questions should be willingly and openly answered given the level of trust given in taking them.
 
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